#Frances Langford

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Remembering singer/actor Frances Langford, #botd in 1913

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Jon Hall et sa femme, Frances Langford, sur sa moto Indian 1940. - source Cars & Motorbikes Stars of the Golden era.

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Remembering popular 1940s-1950s singer and actress Frances Langford. Here she is singing "I'm Good for Nothing but Love" from the 1946 movie 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒐𝒐 𝑩𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒆.

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virginia o'brien, frances langford, judy garland, dorothy lamour, ginny simms, and dinah shore, 1945

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You're all my lucky charms I'm lucky in your arms You've opened heaven's portal Here on earth for this poor mortal

“You Are My Lucky Star” and “I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin'” from The Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935) – music by Nacio Herb Brown; lyrics by Arthur Freed; performed by Frances Langford and orchestra

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Frances Langford

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Every Night at Eight (1935) Raoul Walsh

June 21st 2023

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1949.

Before they created Sid Caesar’s Your Show of Shows, producer Max Liebman and his writers Mel Tolkin and Lucille Kallen wrote a television special starring Milton Berle, George Jessel, and the Ritz Brothers.

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Art Linkletter, Frances Langford, David Niven, and Eddie Cantor at CBS Radio for “Request Performance” sponsored by Campbell Soups in 1946.

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Beer executive, Fritz McGin, plays his Martin 5K ukulele for Bob Hope and singer Frances Langford at a party he threw at his home in Milwaukee in 1948.

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Born to Dance

Roy del Ruth’s BORN TO DANCE (1936, TCM) should be remembered as more than the film in which James Stewart sang and introduced Cole Porter’s “Easy to Love.” It’s also the film in which he dances and bounces on a bed with a gay man. At the time, it was more important that it was the film that launched Eleanor Powell’s MGM contract and set the pattern for most of her films: a show-biz story with a manufactured romantic complication, a few preliminary, low-tech dance numbers for Powell early on and a big finale in a theatrical performance that could never fit on any stage.

This time out Powell’s a show-biz hopeful who falls for Navy man Stewart. Their romance is interrupted when he’s ordered to make public appearances with a Broadway star (Virginia Bruce) trying to publicize her upcoming show. Along the way, his Navy pals have romances of their own. Sid Silvers who also worked on the script, wants to get back with his wife (Una Merkel, who can do no wrong in my book), who hasn’t told him she had a daughter while he was off at sea. Buddy Ebsen has it easier. He connects with waitress Frances Langford, and they both work together in Bruce’s show.

It's all nonsense and until Bruce shows up barely seems to have any plot at all. But Porter wrote two hits for the show, “Easy to Love” and “I’ve Got You Under My Skin,” along with a couple of charming numbers like Powell’s first tap routine, “Rap, Tap on Wood,” the ensemble “Hey, Babe, Hey” and Bruce’s comedy number, “Love Me, Love My Pekinese.” Powell’s dancing is spectacular as ever, particularly when she matches steps with a naval band, and Stewart, though no threat to Fred Astaire, pulls off his few dance steps and manages to keep acting while doing so.

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Over there, over there, Send the word, send the word over there That the Yanks are coming The Yanks are coming The drums rum tumming everywhere

“Over There” in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) – George M. Cohan; performed by Frances Langford, James Cagney, and chorus

In this musical biopic of Broadway composer George M. Cohan (“Give My Regards to Broadway”, “You’re a Grand Old Flag”), James Cagney, best known for the gangster movies he made at Warner Bros., lends his vaudeville background to play Cohan. While observing a match of WWI draftees, Cohan – in a scene that is probably apocryphal – Cohan whistles to a rather unmemorable march, changes a few notes, and composes the tune. Frances Langford plays vaudeville singer Nora Bayes.

“Over There” was a popular patriotic song during both World Wars, regained some popularity after the September 11 attacks, and is infrequently heard today. Yankee Doodle Dandy began production before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and was released only five months after.

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